Cristóbal Alex announced leaving his position as Program Officer at the Ford Foundation, to launch two new projects: the Latino Victory Fund Project and the Latino Victory Foundation, Politico reported. The effort also involves actress and entrepreneur Eva Longoria and DNC Finance Chair Henry Muñoz, who already worked together as co-chairs of the Futuro Fund, a project aimed to empower young Latinos to become entrepreneurs that also helped raise money for President Barack Obama's campaign in 2012.
The Latino Victory Fund, like the LGBT Victory Fund, will help advocate issues that impact the Latino community and will develop a pipeline of Latino candidates for local, state and federal office, Politico.com reported.
According to Latin Times, the Latino Victory Fund will offer training and assistance to help Latinos develop their respective political campaigns, including leadership and campaign workshops, as well as identifying who it supports for office and providing voters with information about the candidates to foster a relationship between Latinos and their political representatives.
The former Desperate Housewives actress also works through the Eva Longoria Foundation to encourage young Latinas to find and utilize their potential. The organization focuses on helping girls attend college and women start their own businesses.
The 38-year-old actress confessed the women in her family inspired her to participate in beneficent events to help others. During an interview with La Prensa, Lognoria said it's more reasonable to help in small ways, "to think what I can do right now, in my community and in my foundation," and added she stressed that people give up because they think they can't help everyone, so they end up helping no one.
Back in August, Longoria was honored with the NCLR's "ALMA de Tu Mundo" award, presented by Telemundo and the National Council of La Raza (NCLR) to recognize Longoria's use of her fame and talent to help the Latino community and to create awareness on various philanthropic causes, People en Español reported.
"The solidarity work is critical to our community, because by defending the rights of Latinos we are defending the rights of everyone. That's how we all can move forward together," said Longoria during her acceptance speech, in perfect Spanish. "I feel very honored to be here because I was born in the United States, but I feel Mexican at heart," she added.
"Acting is my profession, but helping the Latino community is my passion and mission of life. That's why I created the Eva Longoria Foundation, to support the Latino community, which, as we know, is powerful, influential and has a limitless potential," explained the actress.
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